By: Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek
When it comes to choosing a user platform, the choice may soon have less to do with selecting a physical hardware platform and more to do with accommodating actual user workloads. I had just finished my review of VMware View 4.5 when I walked past a Chase bank branch opening up at the corner of Market and Second Streets here in San Francisco. As our industry stands on the cusp of virtualized user workloads, it was somewhat shocking to see a bunch of PCs being hauled into a brand new bank. The branch office, set to open Nov. 16, is filled with new office furniture and what appear to be new PCs at more than a half-dozen desks. In fairness, I don’t know if the PCs are new or simply recycled from the Chase depot, but I had to ask myself why, in a heavily regulated industry and in an office in the heart of technology land, would a business install physical desktop computers when a good alternative—virtual desktops—exists?
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